The German-Jewish painter Samson Schames represents a generation of artists who were forced to leave their homes due to Nazi persecution and yet demonstrated perseverance and resilience in their newly adopted lands. During his internment in an enemy aliens camp near Liverpool and later during the aerial bombardment of London by Nazi Germany, Schames continued to create art using improvised…
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The new Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center—CUNY launches its public programming with “In Honor of Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski: New Scholarship on the History and Memory of the Holocaust in Poland.” Chaired by Dr Joanna Sliwa, the program showcases a wave of outstanding young historians: Miranda Brethour, Alicja…
Join LBI and The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Ramapo College of New Jersey for a conversation with Griselda Pollock and Kerry Wallach about the work and life of the Berlin-born Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943). Michael Riff, Director of The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, will moderate the event.
Please join us as Julie Metz engages in conversation with Ariana Neumann, who in similar fashion wrote about her family’s past as Jews living in Prague at the time of the Nazi occupation. Both women in their work bring to light answers to questions that they had learned, growing up in their families, were not to be asked.